Cairo Egypt-1946: Old City In The Middle Of The Desert And People Passing

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationCairo, Egypt
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Egypt

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Old City In The Middle Of The Desert And People Passing — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from Cairo, Egypt in 1946 captures a sun-drenched Middle Eastern cityscape nestled between desert dunes and the sea. The grainy, color-bleached images show traditional mud-brick buildings with flat roofs and a prominent mosque minaret rising above the skyline. A few figures walk across the sandy foreground, while the camera remains mostly static, offering a nostalgic glimpse of daily life in a historic Egyptian town. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics with visible grain, slight blurriness, and a warm, faded color palette typical of mid-century home movies.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122715457

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1946 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Cairo, Egypt Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s Egypt archive requests needing a brief cityscape insert, travelogue cutaway, or home-movie view of a sunlit desert-edge settlement.
Period detail: Flat-roofed masonry buildings, open sandy ground, modest street activity, and a minaret may show mid-20th-century urban fabric as identified in the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The static visitor-shot framing values the skyline and passing figures rather than staged action, giving the scene a casual home-movie observation quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pale flat-roofed buildings, a mosque minaret, sandy open foreground, distant water or blue horizon, desert-like ridges, utility poles, and small walking figures.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, slight gate borders, faded color, and steady but informal framing that reads as physical home-movie film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, geographic transition, memory beat, or contextual cutaway within a sequence about 1940s Egypt or historic urban travel.
Historical context: The footage presents an outdoor settlement view with sparse pedestrian movement and religious architecture in a bright, arid landscape, without enough detail to identify a specific district.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and property considerations should be checked separately before final use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1940s Egypt 8mm cityscape, Cairo home movie skyline, desert town with minaret, vintage Middle East travel footage, and people crossing sandy foreground.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other Cairo or Egypt footage from 1946, then with 1940s urban, desert, mosque, or travel-home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Egypt home-movie frame showing pale masonry buildings and open sandy ground, with soft 8mm focus and dark film borders. — Flat-roofed buildings stand beside a bright open sandy area.

Metadata-supported Cairo, Egypt view with a minaret above low buildings, open sandy foreground, and a blue distant horizon. — A minaret rises above low buildings with a blue horizon beyond.

Wide 1946 Egypt cityscape frame with low masonry buildings, a minaret, small distant pedestrians, and faded 8mm color. — Small figures cross the sandy foreground below a low skyline and minaret.

Final 8mm frame of the Cairo-listed clip showing a pale townscape, minaret, open sandy ground, distant horizon, and tree at right. — The shot holds on the townscape, with a minaret and tree framing the right side.

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